Display device



Feb. 21, 1939. P. M. REsslNGE-.R

DISPLAY DEVICE Filed Feb. 8, 1957 Patented Feb. 21, 1.939

UNITED STATES PTENT OFFICE DISPLAY DEVICE Paul M. Ressinger, Chicago,Ill.

Application February 8, 1937, Serial No.

3 Claims.

and handled.

Another purpose is the provision of improved means for displaying andselling pens, pencils and the like.

Other purposes will appear from time to time in the course of thespecification and claims.

I illustrate my invention more or less diagrammatically in theaccompanying drawing wherein:

Figure 1 is a front elevation;

Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3--3 of Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a section 2; and

Figure 5 is a tray.

Like parts are indicated by like symbols throughout the specificationand drawing.

Referring to the drawing, I illustrate a pair of on the line 4-*4 ofFigure detail of a display and storage upper channels 5. 6 indicatesupper depressions or cut-away portions. The members 3, 3 are which areadapted to receive a pane of glass or the like l2, the other edges ofwhich rest in the cut-away portion E of the side frame members 3.Mounted in the channels 5 I illustrate any suitable transverse member Mwhich may serve as a reinforcing member but which has for a primarypurpose to carry advertising or descriptive material or the trade-markor trade name of the positioning notches I8, the purpose of which willlater appear. i 9 generallyindicates an upper disreferring to theFigures 3 and 5.

tray. The purpose of these pins is to support the tray between the framemembers 2 separately removed without disturbing each other. It will beunderstood that I may dispense with the upper notch I8 and the stopmembers 26 to serve the same function in limiting the downward movementof the tray as is performed for the lower tray 25 by the transversemember 1. I find it preferable however in connection with spacing thetwo trays to employ the above described notch structure.

It will be realized that whereas I have herewith shown and described apractical operative device, nevertheless many changes might be made inthe size, shape, number and. disposition of parts without departing fromthe spirit of the invention and I wish, therefore, that my showing betaken as in a sense diagrammatic. For example, I might use but a singletray, or I might use more than two, and many changes in the specificsecuring means may be employed without departing from my invention.

I claim:

l. In a display device, a frame member including channeled side frameelements, and a plurality of removable display members, each includingoutward lateral projections adapted to slide along the channels of saidside frame elements and to support said display members therein, thewalls of said channels being cut away to permit the passage of saidprojections therethrough and the consequent removal of the displaymembers, both said display members lying when in display position insubstantially the same plane.

2. In a display device, a frame member including channeled side frameelements, and a plurality of removable display members, each includingoutward lateral projections adapted to slide along the channels of saidside frame elements and to support said display members therein, thelower walls of said channels being cut away to permit the downwardpassage of said projections therethrough and the consequent downwardremoval of the display members, there being a plurality of lateralprojections at each side of each display member, and a separate cut awayportion in the lower wall of each said channel for each said displaymember, means for holding each said display member in a predeterminedposition, and a transverse member adapted to mask the interval betweenthe said display members.

3. In a display device a support including frame members provided withlug receiving channels, a display member, and means for movably mountingsaid display member within said frame members with the display facethereof eX- posed to View from in front of said display device, saidmounting means including spaced lug members extending outwardly fromopposite sides of the display member and slidably supported within saidchannels, said lugs normally engaging a wall of said channel to supportthe display member in display position, said frame members beingprovided with openings leading into said channels for the ingress oregress of said lug members, said lug members in the normal displayposition of the display member being out of registry with said openings,said channels being dimensioned to permit relative sliding movement ofthe display member therein to bring the upper lugs in registry with saidopenings whereby said display member may be tilted rearwardly anddownwardly about the lower lugs to dispose the display face and contentsof the display member in position for ready access to one standingbehind the display device.

PAUL M. RESSINGER.

